Stories by krizhanovsky

Understanding and Improving Web Security Performance

Building your own WordPress staging with Tempesta FW

Full browser stack L7 DDoS against Russian resources

Fast web application = OpenResty + MariaDB UDF

Lean startup: build fast billing system in MariaDB UDF and OpenResty

MariaDB vs. MySQL performance on CPU-bound range queries

Performance of ORDER BY over text columns in MariaDB and MySQL

Non-hierarchical caching for VOD CDN

Mathematics and development of fast TLS handshakes

C/C++ vs. Rust Performance

Fast programming languages: C, C++, Rust, and Assembly

Tempesta TLS: up to 40-80% faster than Nginx/OpneSSL and up to x4 lower latency [pdf]

User-space vs. Linux kernel TCP for HTTPS proxying

Quickly the Linux TCP/IP stack can process short-living TCP connections

Gotchas in high performance networking with KVM

Web application firewall (WAF) acceleration

CPDoS: Cache Poisoned Denial of Service

A Review of the recent Google paper about a user-space networking project Snap

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